TEN THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T SAY.....

[Wirrallass]

.....to a person who has T1 Diabetes.

 

[Andy HB]

11. I think you're having a hypo. Where's your insulin?

 

[KARNAK]

11. I think you're having a hypo. Where's your insulin?

 

[Carlos]

The holistic bs always gets my blood pressure up, but it is a quick indication that you are talking to a blithering idiot.

 

[trophywench]

Just sitting here giggling at the lot of you.

Kittens have rough tongues plus needle like teeth and not yet fully experienced at only licking …….

 

[Sally71]

And one from a child's point of view: “it's not fair, you get to eat sweets in class!” - yes, when I’m feeling like pooh and am not hungry in the slightest and would rather be doing anything at all other than having yucky sweet stuff shoved down my throat when I don't want it!

Well I suppose that could also apply to an adult, if anyone has ever been moaned at for eating at their desk when hypo or taking snack breaks to deal with it

 

[Brando77]

"CALL THE COPS.....HE'S INJECTING HEROIN!!! Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!"

 

[trophywench]

"CALL THE COPS.....HE'S INJECTING HEROIN!!! Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!"

I was sitting on a wall one holiday in France having purchased some frites from the adjacent chip pan and having tested my blood sugar, was using my pen to inject my bolus. A couple walked past and were gesticulating to each other and displaying shocked/horrified faces - so I grinned at em and waved whilst saying I hope to hell they find a gendarme handy to report me to! Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be one handy, I'd have very much enjoyed explaining myself to him.

 

[Ljc]

You should do that in the toilet

 

[Kaylz]

Your recovering from a prolonged stubborn hypo and feel utter c**p but you get from someone "you can't feel THAT bad, just get on with it"

 

[Sally71]

Someone has just reminded me of this one - when someone finds out you are diabetic they say “ oh, my aunt's best friend's grandmother died of that!” Gee, thanks, that's really helpful to know! Especially if you are newly diagnosed and scared! I realise that people probably don't know what to say when faced with this news, but how can they possibly think that a comment like that is helpful, is there really nothing else that can be said? 😡 Saying nothing at all would be better than that!

 

[Carlos]

You should do that in the toilet

Your recovering from a prolonged stubborn hypo and feel utter c**p but you get from someone "you can't feel THAT bad, just get on with it"

I really am very lucky, as in my 25 years of living with diabetes I've never had to deal with that sort of comment.

"CALL THE COPS.....HE'S INJECTING HEROIN!!! Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!"

When my wife and I started going out a relation of hers apparently told her that she should be careful, as I might be a heroin addict pretending my injections were insulin 😱

 

[Ralph-YK]

"You're fine. You're fine. You're fine. NO. You're Fine!" B$%@& family.

When my wife and I started going out a relation of hers apparently told her that she should be careful, as I might be a heroin addict pretending my injections were insulin 😱

Ugh *{shakes head}*

 

[Carlos]

"You're fine. You're fine. You're fine. NO. You're Fine!" B$%@& family.

Ugh *{shakes head}*

Knowing my wife, that relation is probably regretting to this day having said that

 

[Sharron1]

My personal favourite (to date). Whispered tones, "Are you ok (hand gently resting on lower arm), you have lost a lot of weight"(head dips and eyes staring, head starts to nod gently. Hand still resting on lower arm).

 

[leonS]

"Have you had any trouble with your injection sites?"
- "What kind of trouble?"
"Infections"
- "No!"
"You will!"
Just the kind of reassurance that a newly diagnosed diabetic needs from his GP.

Every day for the past 46 years I have woken up and thought "I wonder if I will get that predicted infection today?"

 

[Ljc]

I read this on here a few years ago. Someone told a friend he had T1, the friend replied ,
I didn’t know you were fat.

 

[SB2015]

I was in a singing course for a week. A person I talked to in the bar one evening managed to get six out of ten in the first 15 min of @wirralass list. I told him and we had a good laugh about it.
That night he looked it up, and was horrified that he had been so close to getting ‘full marks’.
He too had a chronic condition and we made up a list of ten for him too and we scored others in the bar that night. We both did ‘quite well’

 

[Ljc]

When you are having a nasty hypo , you know the type , one that just won’t take the hint and b off and brings all its friends around .
This was said to me and was meant kindly .

Why don’t you go and have a lay down, a sleep might do you good 😱

 

[PhoebeC]

I was in a singing course for a week. A person I talked to in the bar one evening managed to get six out of ten in the first 15 min of @wirralass list. I told him and we had a good laugh about it.
That night he looked it up, and was horrified that he had been so close to getting ‘full marks’.
He too had a chronic condition and we made up a list of ten for him too and we scored others in the bar that night. We both did ‘quite well’

Now this is a game. I like it!
I went for lunch with my friend once who has lupus and something else so she’s on a lot of medication which she takes at meals. It was like a chemist at our table that day with us both ha!